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Released to television screens around North American in 1978 just before Halloween made him a star director, John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me takes place in Los Angeles where we meet a recent transplant
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Directed by 1985 by Eurcine alum Bernard Launois, Devil Story (or, if you prefer, Il était une fois le diable in its native France), starts out with a scene where a deformed man (Pascal Simon) referred to as a monster and then later as a gargoyle running about rural France in an SS uniform wreaking havoc. First a woman gathers logs in the woods and literally skips (no seriously, we see her skipping through the woods – and she’s not a little
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In a rural Asian village, a group of young women go swimming. One of them is attacked by a crocodile and eaten. A local witch doctor hangs a dead chicken and recites a spell to draw the guilty crocodile to him, which he then kills and guts, retrieving an amulet the devoured girl had owned. The action then cuts to Hong Kong, where a man watches a young dancer in a discotheque, but the dancer leaves with
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This twenty-minute short film opens with a stark black and white shot of a woman lying in bed, the room is in shambles. The alarm goes off and she stumbles back to life, and she grabs a book called Blade Of Justice. She eats her breakfast,
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The feature length directorial debut of prolific TV director Sharron Miller, 1978’s House Of The Dead (also released as… Alien Zone) may not reach the heights of classic horror anthologies like those that Amicus was cranking out in the decade before
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Written by, starring and produced by Renee Harmon (and directed by James Bryan, Lady Street Fighter opens with a scene where a topless woman is tortured by some ruthless fiends and then eventually killed. This woman was Billie, the sister of a middle-aged, high class call girl named Linda Allen (Harmon) who we meet when she arrives from Amsterdam in Los Angeles. Shortly after she sets foot on American soil, a duo of bad dudes attempts to steal her stuffed Snoopy toy! She narrowly escapes with her
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Tompkins Square Park, located in the East Village in Manhattan, has long been a sight the locals associate with politics and activism. There were anti-war protests there in the sixties, and in the eighties it became a de facto homeless camp and was ripe with drug problems. In 1988, the cops came in and tried to oust the homeless that were living there. This resulted in a now fairly infamous riot, clips of which did wind up on newscasts around the New York City area. When it was all said and done, between the evening of August 6th and the morning of August 7th, thirty-eight people – homeless and random bystanders alike – were injured in altercations with the NYPD and no police
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Once upon a time there was a young man named Eun-soo who, after a questionable car accident, finds himself wandering the forest looking for help. As night falls he is found by a young girl carrying a lantern who invites him to come to her
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An incredibly fast paced gangster film, Kinji Fukasaku’s 1972 picture Street Mobster is the story of Isamu Okita (Bunta Sagawara), an aging mobster stuck in jail for killing some rival Takigawa clan gangsters in a bathhouse a few years ago. Now, he’s
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Directed by Peter Medak and based on the ‘true story’ of Russell Hunter, who co-wrote the film, 1980’s The Changeling is widely regarded as one of the best American ghost story movies ever made. And with good reason, as it’s a pretty spooky picture ripe with the type of atmosphere and intensity that’s lacking in so many modern CGI-laden cinematic tales of the supernatural.

To celebrate their fifth anniversary, Vinegar Syndrome give another five of their best horror and exploitation films a welcome Blu-ray upgrade in this exclusive two-disc set. Here’s what to look for…

Cry Wilderness:

Cry Wilderness is a real gem. The film introduces us to a boy named Paul Cooper (Eric Foster). When we meet him, he has wandered away from his class during a field trip to a museum. His teacher, Mr. Douglas (Navarre Perry), finds him gazing longingly at a giant Bigfoot display. Douglas tells him Bigfoot isn’t real but Paul knows better because last summer when he was fishing in
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Stuart Gordon’s feature length directorial debut, 1985’s Re-Animator, was released twice on DVD courtesy of Elite Entertainment in both single disc and double disc (as one of their Millennium Edition releases) formats and then a third time when the rights having shifted over to Anchor Bay Entertainment. The movie then received its fourth uncut North American release, its first on Blu-ray, courtesy of Image Entertainment followed by a superior looking German
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